EGAVE

lexeme

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form. The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
  2. noun The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
  3. noun The set itself; a lexemic family.
  4. noun The wordform chosen to represent such a set or family.
  5. noun An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.

Similar words

morpheme lexemehood semolexeme lexon lexicon lexical unit multi-word expression lemmatisation compound lemma

Often followed by

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Word family

lexemes lexemic

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